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:) Awight guys Good wee thread this is getting loads o god advice and info. See now i run those greenway macho fellies and unfortuantly the numties at the garage fitted 3 the wrong way around and left 1 the right way so i thought disater but as mentioned they did pull me oota a very sticky...

:) Griffdowg chill oot Bone head. you shouldnt be creating ruts 1-2ft deep. esp. on public lanes. Was actually a forest track the felling trucks used so the ruts would have been small blips in the path compared to what their huge tyres do. Also the forest had been felled and here in...

:) Excellent write up and very usefull tips there Vambo! Im new to landys and offroad driving. Recently nearly got stuck in some very soft clay like mud and used the rocking technique to get out along with the clutch as the brake like you mention aswell as gentle turning of the wheels to find...

:confused: Dont know if this is relivant probably not but anyhoo... Got a subaru wrx and old trick to imobilise em is to pull the crank scensor the engines will turn over for ever but wont fire up. Boner

That's the way to go, and the wiring is dead easy, and the bits are cheap. CharlesY :) oo cheapeness thast sounds good. any cahnce you could draw up a wiring diagram and parts needed to do the job in hand?? would really appriciate the input. On a sour note "Witham specialists...

:) Cheers for all the advice on this one guys not being electricaly minded i done what i do know best which is how to strip things right down clean em and build em back up. manged via a link to find workshop manuels for the defender and it states the bulb is vital to the charging system hence my...

:) Got the abttery warnign light to work again! stripped the alternator right down cleaned the hell outa the thing, lots of mud n **** in there. Managed to take the regulator to bits and it was full of **** too so it got cleaned up. Then noticed the 3pin plug onto back of alternator was a tad...

:) Thanks for all those replys guys appriciate the advice and will deffiantly try discconecting the battery overnight aswell as buying a bettery isolater switch. dont ahve alarms or imobilisers just 2 dogs:D . I had a fettle with the transit alternator being a lucas aswell and checked the...

Hi THanks for the fast reply.. the batterys are brand new and very good conditon for the other... battery warnign light used tos eem to work but then nothign for last week or so just seem to eventually kill the batterys, checked the bulb today by putting into oil warnign light holster and...

:) Thanks Redhand i will email them try gte one of them noticed a few on fleebay goign for no too much so know the rough cost now. Can anyone help me with my battery/alternator/chagring system here what i ahve done s far. Leave the landy over night or few days battery dies goes flat. The...

Hi Folks Juts bought a Sanky trailer and collecting iot att he wkend in the van but my landy comes with just a normal toeball. Anybody got a nato hitch they wana sell or know of anyone that has yin cant be arsed with fleebay!. Also sidetrack why does my landrover battery sounds dead if cold...

:) Im still no expert on the landys but i do tinker all the time with it these days and after redoing the whole cooling system new pipes and a good radiator flush etc i found after a good long drive i got a surge o heat caused by a airlock in da engine bay it spat water evrywhere loosing...

:) greenways are good tyres. Got the slightly smaller and less agrresive Machos 18mm depth and at the weekend me and a fellow landy owner decided to tackle a track we found thinking it was for 4x4! oh yes it was but forest truck logging 4x4 not landys anyhoo they got me outa a very sticky...

:D My RC truck has this problem if sitting too long Damn mud tyres. :o i know no use but its a hell of a 4x4. On a seriouse note my greenway machos are a bit lumpy and the shock n springs are slow till warm.

HI Folks Well been busy with the landy last week as i had a few problems mainly caused by me but others i need advice on. Now that i have decided to get a 200tdi in the near future im serviceing and totally rebuilding the current engine or of its parts anywyas. Maybe rebuild all internals...

:) cheers very muckle Dopey-1983 and Chris_Mack. Excellent info on that page and saved for future refrence now i have decided to go down the TDi200 route. Got my eyes open on fleebay and got a few local boys on the case that might know of some discos. Ill see about the rear discs as after...

:o hehe yea more than likley was me drunk on the first thread. Do appricaite the advice its good to get it from folk that own landys. Need to decide now. Does anybody ahve any rough idea how much id pick up a tdi200 for and who and what price this conversion comes in at. i presume...

:) Cheers for the info Grunt. Had it in the local garage the boys in there are a good bunch and very freindly seem to enjoy a good chat and appriciate an old vehicle. On closer inspection the clutch cover is where the oil is collecting so its coming from that area maybe like you say the...

:) Awight ill try explain now im sober.. There aint much wrong with the current engine inafct im quiet surprised how well she pulls and the fuel aint bad at all and the leak not that bad either but bad nuff to justify fixing it. Yea it may be a simple gasket but it seems to be that up here...

:D finding theses days that the chuffs that own the garages have put petorl or should i say deszil prices so close to petrool that its caheaper to run petrol than dezil. :rolleyes: that almost looks like a riddle. Ill get a phonecall on monday bot the V8 engines , other option is transit...